Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Herd health days, what herd health days?
That was easy and dare I say it even: kind of fun. With a full and experienced crew of 6, including both of our kids, we whipped through the entire herd in just a day and a half. In reality less even as we stopped yesterday around 2PM to take in hay (and in my…
Random thoughts on the 1st of September
We had three boys born on Tuesday and then one little female born yesterday afternoon. That’s kind of a microcosm of our 2011 male/female ratio. Is there some kind of booby prize if by the end of the season we have 40 white male crias on the ground? C’est la vie. Our youngest son’s club…
Trying to make sense of the devastation
Though we made it through Irene here on the farm with nary a flicker of the lights our state, as you have no doubt heard by now, really took it on the chin. The flooding and destruction statewide is said to be as bad or worse than the infamously destructive (I learned yesterday) storm of…
Batten down the hatches
So here we are waiting on a hurricane. Since yesterday we’ve been going around securing anything that’s apt to be a flight risk in 50+ knot winds. The funny thing was that we just spent the last several days hosting my sister and her family who headed back to Cape Cod earlier this morning. While…
National Alpaca Farm Days
We are happy to announce that CCNF will be participating in this year’s National Alpaca Farm Days! We have been absent from that scene for a couple of years now dealing with other scheduled events so we are really looking forward to participating again. Though our experiences with open farm days (whether organized by AOBA…
Not all who wander are lost?
Five years ago we started an August/September tradition of taking our kids, and often some of their friends, up to the Great Vermont Corn Maze in Danville. It has never let us down. Yes, after 90+ minutes of wandering around the 10 acre field it’s often common to start getting short with one another. You…